And here I thought the answer was the NSA tells them and they know because they have root access to these systems.
The fact that it's actually through real police efforts actually makes me feel a tiny bit better.
The NSA is watching you. The FBI is watching the NSA. The Secret service is watching the FBI. The CIA is watching the Secret Service. And of course the NSA is also watching the CIA.
What we have here, is a Conga Line of people in trench coats and fedoras, wearing Ray Ban sunglasses and using headphones, HUD displays or binoculars.
I'd pay to see that, but if I did they'd have to kill me.
Everything about the --AA entertainment industry is purposely inconvenient. That way they can sell you the next, slightly more convenient version of the same content you already purchased.
Well, there is that, but it's mostly the studios and/or property owners who decided to issued the nth "Directors Cut/Whizzy Edition/Collectors Edition/Extended..." but you don't have to fall for that. Sometimes they are worthwhile, as many of the first James Bond DVDs were not genuine Widescreen, but cropped TV edition to look like it. Genuine Wide format was issued after they were embarrassingly caught (they should have been forced to buy back all the crap editions.)
The only real inconvenience is all the damn previews they cram in the beginning of DVDs. Nothing, to me, is stronger motivation to rip the disk so I can watch it without this insulting crapfest.
What we need now, more than ever, is fanatical nationalism!
That plus widespread fear of the bogeyman is exactly what got you into this.
And when government decides your most sacred rights are optional and that the Constitution didn't really say what people think it does.... well, that's what you deserve.
This program has always been un-Constitutional. But it's been represented as so vital that the Constitutionality of it is irrelevant in the eyes of those doing it.
Yeah.
FDR: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
G. W. Bush: Be afraid! Trust noone but the government. Trust the Pentagon, too. Oh, and the Department of Homeland Security also. And Condi Rice, you can trust her, I do. I also trust Rummy and Wolfowitz. And a bunch of big businesses and deregulation, they're good for you. But don't trust any foreigners, and those sneaky French, don't trust them like you don't trust foreigners. So be afraid and trust me most of all.
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I expect something more like the taste of smoked roasted wild boar and a fine note of decaying fish (SürstrÃming) for the fine taste!
Fortified with the blood of your slain enemies...
Honestly, this is about as worthless as Bad Frog Beer, the beer they felt they had to make, because the T-shirt of the frog appearing to give the middle digit, was selling so well and people asked about the fictional beer. The beer could be Bud, Pearl, Coors or just about anything else.
Sounds like there's an assumption running amok - the people died come from those who are saved by fuel use.
Hmm.
More likely these people are simply those who have to work outside more or live outside, which is neither here nor there on benefiting from fuel use. Those who have the money can largely shield themselves from it -- and in the sanctity of their homes enjoy a good tin of Perri Air.
What does President Carter have to hide? Must be some sort of terrorist if he wants to communicate privately. We should get a government security detail to monitor this dissident ASAP.
He's a liberal, of course he thinks people should have civil rights. Why, he's practically a socialist!
What we need now, more than ever, is fanatical nationalism!
Fight in the cockpit? Pilot trying to take control and fly it to somewhere? It's certainly an erratic course, none of which seems consistent with trying to fight a fire.
Contrary to movies, spy satellites do not watch every inch of the planet. Nor can you easily steer them into another orbit for live James Bond style feeds.
ZERO spy satellites point at the open ocean, nothing interesting going on out there.
Meet SBIRS - From the page "SBIRS, considered one of the nation’s highest priority space programs, is designed to provide global, persistent, infrared surveillance capabilities to meet 21st century demands..."
I would find it illogical for the United States to only be monitoring continental lands, it would be akin to taking a picture and cropping out everything but the subject.
My bet is no government wants to out their level of sophistication in the surveillance world... It's a massive tactical advantage.
This is what has been bantered about in the news this morning. Many countries have been slow in revealing what they know, but have adopted a "we can confirm that" approach - much to the criticism of others. Never mind the satellites wouldn't be up there "confirming" things were it not for hefty spy budgets. No doubt some can detect nuclear submarines which think they are all unknown in the murky depths of the oceans. We can probably detect an ant fart in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.
More information has been forthcoming in recent days, because a little tipping of hands has been regarded in some quarters as a better policy than playing it entirely dumb.
as a practical matter actually finding the plane won't change much
Really? You don't think there's much of a difference between knowing it was a mechanical failure (or fire, etc) and knowing it was a deliberate criminal act? If the problem was related to payload or the aircraft's infrastructure or maintenance, you don't think it's vital for all of the other people flying on that same equipment to know what went wrong? If this was done by the pilot(s) at the behest of some organization or state, or otherwise in the service of some agenda, you don't think that's meaningful, in the context of trying to prevent it from happening again? Glad you're so relaxed about it. You probably don't do much business overseas, or ship expensive things that are central to your mission, or have relatives that fly on that equipment or in that part of the world, so that's probably why the death of hundreds and the loss of a huge, expensive aircraft is a yawner to you.
Turning off the transponders seems pretty deliberate.
They have narrowed down the presumed crash site. TFA states that the Malaysian government takes this data as proof that the plane crashed near Australia. While important evidence, it's hardly proof - we will need actual debris.
The Malaysian government has been widely criticized about it's handling of this affair. They would like to wash their hands of it and go on to doing whatever it was they were doing out of the world's spotlight.
To be fair, the Malaysian government is a small body with mean resources, compared to China, USA, Russia, France, Great Britain, Japan, India, etc. The world community has come together admirably (if a little grudging regarding some satellite intel) and thrown enormous resources at this recovery project.
I am somewhat curious why the Chinese are so bent on a quick resolution here. Is it because they really do look after their people? Or was someone or something on the jet they really want know where is or have some finality on? I don't think any country has ever been this anxious over a lost jet before.
Few hundred? Probably a bit more than that, but at least they have the vicinity. Which is significantly different from other places they were looking.
The Chinese government has been very impatient and hot under the collar about the whole search and lack of answers, yet they also have been coming forward with satellite photos of potential debris hundreds of miles apart from each other. "Hey! Look here!" "Hey! Look there!" "Hey, look way over here, now!" What's taking you people so long finding it?!? We demand answers!
Meanwhile, some data has been very slow in coming, because defense and spy satellites are veeeerrrrryy good at tracking and seeing, but various countries have been slow to tip their hands and show just how much the see and can track, lest they give away some very closely guarded secrets.
Hopefully the remains of the craft will be found soon, so the Chinese government can move from frustration to anger directed at whomever or whatever is responsible. Also, so families can have a sense of closure.
I doubt he was blaming the artists themselves, but the leadership who ignored gameplay and focused on the artists.. But I could be wrong, it is not like I am going to read the original article.
When there's blame to be laid - look no further than The Committee!
That's right, it's them who are to fault, not the leadership. Never the leadership, the people who decided how much compensation they deserve for taking their eye off the wheel.
Instead of trying for massive multiplayer, Maybe they should of concentrated on the people that got the series there in the first place - the ones not playing multiplayer?
Thoughts?
That crew probably all left for greener pastures. Pretty unusual for the same to to hang about, particularly if they didn't share much in the rewards of getting to the pinnacle.
Lovingly crafted with attention to detail, yet not pragmatic enough to make money, money, money. It must be art.
No kidding. Personally I really go for a game with intricately designed accents, such as flower pots. If they're just the rough-n-ready ones like from the garden department discount bin, count me out.
How about former governor of California, Ahnold, who referred to legislators as "girlie" men? I wonder how the women in the legislature felt about that. Probably not particularly enamored with the governator. Certainly enough in the electorate were willing to overlook it.:-|
It's not just games, but cultural and it comes up all the time, thing is, most people's detectors don't go off because they aren't attuned to it being offensive.
He's talking about the messages baked into the game by the developer, not those from the interactions with other players. He's also not limiting his comments to multi player games.
How about we just play a bunch of movies and commercials from the good ol' days (1950's and before) where this sort of stuff was the norm.
look kids, a woman, and see how happy she is with a new vacuum cleaner!
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And here I thought the answer was the NSA tells them and they know because they have root access to these systems.
The fact that it's actually through real police efforts actually makes me feel a tiny bit better.
The NSA is watching you. The FBI is watching the NSA. The Secret service is watching the FBI. The CIA is watching the Secret Service. And of course the NSA is also watching the CIA.
What we have here, is a Conga Line of people in trench coats and fedoras, wearing Ray Ban sunglasses and using headphones, HUD displays or binoculars.
I'd pay to see that, but if I did they'd have to kill me.
touche i never looked at it that way
It's a play right out of the SCO book.
Spherix aquired some of the patents from Rockstar last year
And then they did 'research' - "Let's go through these things and see if we can sue any really big companies for biggie whopper zorkmids!"
Thank you USPTO Lottery!
Everything about the --AA entertainment industry is purposely inconvenient. That way they can sell you the next, slightly more convenient version of the same content you already purchased.
Well, there is that, but it's mostly the studios and/or property owners who decided to issued the nth "Directors Cut/Whizzy Edition/Collectors Edition/Extended..." but you don't have to fall for that. Sometimes they are worthwhile, as many of the first James Bond DVDs were not genuine Widescreen, but cropped TV edition to look like it. Genuine Wide format was issued after they were embarrassingly caught (they should have been forced to buy back all the crap editions.)
The only real inconvenience is all the damn previews they cram in the beginning of DVDs. Nothing, to me, is stronger motivation to rip the disk so I can watch it without this insulting crapfest.
You forgot that he's an alien.
Dang. I missed that, too. Forgot the Birther angle.
WOOSH yourself. The 'wait wut?' should have tipped you that it was sarcasm.
So WOOSH, again. Thanks for playing, hope you don't fail so badly next round.
That plus widespread fear of the bogeyman is exactly what got you into this.
And when government decides your most sacred rights are optional and that the Constitution didn't really say what people think it does .... well, that's what you deserve.
This program has always been un-Constitutional. But it's been represented as so vital that the Constitutionality of it is irrelevant in the eyes of those doing it.
Yeah.
FDR: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
G. W. Bush: Be afraid! Trust noone but the government. Trust the Pentagon, too. Oh, and the Department of Homeland Security also. And Condi Rice, you can trust her, I do. I also trust Rummy and Wolfowitz. And a bunch of big businesses and deregulation, they're good for you. But don't trust any foreigners, and those sneaky French, don't trust them like you don't trust foreigners. So be afraid and trust me most of all.
I expect something more like the taste of smoked roasted wild boar and a fine note of decaying fish (SürstrÃming) for the fine taste!
Fortified with the blood of your slain enemies...
Honestly, this is about as worthless as Bad Frog Beer, the beer they felt they had to make, because the T-shirt of the frog appearing to give the middle digit, was selling so well and people asked about the fictional beer. The beer could be Bud, Pearl, Coors or just about anything else.
Sounds like there's an assumption running amok - the people died come from those who are saved by fuel use.
Hmm.
More likely these people are simply those who have to work outside more or live outside, which is neither here nor there on benefiting from fuel use. Those who have the money can largely shield themselves from it -- and in the sanctity of their homes enjoy a good tin of Perri Air.
Ah yes, Obama, our weak totalitarian king community organizer who is controlled by nazi tree-hugging muslim pastors.
Did I get everything that's wrong with Obama? Or am I missing the fear du jour?
I think you forgot to play the race card.
What does President Carter have to hide? Must be some sort of terrorist if he wants to communicate privately. We should get a government security detail to monitor this dissident ASAP.
He's a liberal, of course he thinks people should have civil rights. Why, he's practically a socialist!
What we need now, more than ever, is fanatical nationalism!
wait wut?
Fight in the cockpit? Pilot trying to take control and fly it to somewhere? It's certainly an erratic course, none of which seems consistent with trying to fight a fire.
Flop - anything big-budget by Disney, it appears.
Duece[sic] - 1932 Ford 2-door hardtop, preferred for hot-rodding in the 1940s and 50s.
The analogy is pretty good, though about placing bets upon known variables and hindsight.
Contrary to movies, spy satellites do not watch every inch of the planet. Nor can you easily steer them into another orbit for live James Bond style feeds.
ZERO spy satellites point at the open ocean, nothing interesting going on out there.
Meet SBIRS - From the page "SBIRS, considered one of the nation’s highest priority space programs, is designed to provide global, persistent, infrared surveillance capabilities to meet 21st century demands..."
I would find it illogical for the United States to only be monitoring continental lands, it would be akin to taking a picture and cropping out everything but the subject.
My bet is no government wants to out their level of sophistication in the surveillance world... It's a massive tactical advantage.
This is what has been bantered about in the news this morning. Many countries have been slow in revealing what they know, but have adopted a "we can confirm that" approach - much to the criticism of others. Never mind the satellites wouldn't be up there "confirming" things were it not for hefty spy budgets. No doubt some can detect nuclear submarines which think they are all unknown in the murky depths of the oceans. We can probably detect an ant fart in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.
More information has been forthcoming in recent days, because a little tipping of hands has been regarded in some quarters as a better policy than playing it entirely dumb.
as a practical matter actually finding the plane won't change much
Really? You don't think there's much of a difference between knowing it was a mechanical failure (or fire, etc) and knowing it was a deliberate criminal act? If the problem was related to payload or the aircraft's infrastructure or maintenance, you don't think it's vital for all of the other people flying on that same equipment to know what went wrong? If this was done by the pilot(s) at the behest of some organization or state, or otherwise in the service of some agenda, you don't think that's meaningful, in the context of trying to prevent it from happening again? Glad you're so relaxed about it. You probably don't do much business overseas, or ship expensive things that are central to your mission, or have relatives that fly on that equipment or in that part of the world, so that's probably why the death of hundreds and the loss of a huge, expensive aircraft is a yawner to you.
Turning off the transponders seems pretty deliberate.
They have narrowed down the presumed crash site. TFA states that the Malaysian government takes this data as proof that the plane crashed near Australia. While important evidence, it's hardly proof - we will need actual debris.
The Malaysian government has been widely criticized about it's handling of this affair. They would like to wash their hands of it and go on to doing whatever it was they were doing out of the world's spotlight.
To be fair, the Malaysian government is a small body with mean resources, compared to China, USA, Russia, France, Great Britain, Japan, India, etc. The world community has come together admirably (if a little grudging regarding some satellite intel) and thrown enormous resources at this recovery project.
I am somewhat curious why the Chinese are so bent on a quick resolution here. Is it because they really do look after their people? Or was someone or something on the jet they really want know where is or have some finality on? I don't think any country has ever been this anxious over a lost jet before.
Few hundred? Probably a bit more than that, but at least they have the vicinity. Which is significantly different from other places they were looking.
The Chinese government has been very impatient and hot under the collar about the whole search and lack of answers, yet they also have been coming forward with satellite photos of potential debris hundreds of miles apart from each other. "Hey! Look here!" "Hey! Look there!" "Hey, look way over here, now!" What's taking you people so long finding it?!? We demand answers!
Meanwhile, some data has been very slow in coming, because defense and spy satellites are veeeerrrrryy good at tracking and seeing, but various countries have been slow to tip their hands and show just how much the see and can track, lest they give away some very closely guarded secrets.
Hopefully the remains of the craft will be found soon, so the Chinese government can move from frustration to anger directed at whomever or whatever is responsible. Also, so families can have a sense of closure.
I doubt he was blaming the artists themselves, but the leadership who ignored gameplay and focused on the artists.. But I could be wrong, it is not like I am going to read the original article.
When there's blame to be laid - look no further than The Committee!
That's right, it's them who are to fault, not the leadership. Never the leadership, the people who decided how much compensation they deserve for taking their eye off the wheel.
Instead of trying for massive multiplayer, Maybe they should of concentrated on the people that got the series there in the first place - the ones not playing multiplayer?
Thoughts?
That crew probably all left for greener pastures. Pretty unusual for the same to to hang about, particularly if they didn't share much in the rewards of getting to the pinnacle.
Lovingly crafted with attention to detail, yet not pragmatic enough to make money, money, money. It must be art.
No kidding. Personally I really go for a game with intricately designed accents, such as flower pots. If they're just the rough-n-ready ones like from the garden department discount bin, count me out.
How about former governor of California, Ahnold, who referred to legislators as "girlie" men? I wonder how the women in the legislature felt about that. Probably not particularly enamored with the governator. Certainly enough in the electorate were willing to overlook it. :-|
It's not just games, but cultural and it comes up all the time, thing is, most people's detectors don't go off because they aren't attuned to it being offensive.
He's talking about the messages baked into the game by the developer, not those from the interactions with other players. He's also not limiting his comments to multi player games.
How about we just play a bunch of movies and commercials from the good ol' days (1950's and before) where this sort of stuff was the norm.
look kids, a woman, and see how happy she is with a new vacuum cleaner!
That's the quickest way.
No thanks, I'd rather read The National Enquirer. It has less sensational hyperbole than Science.
But, but, but, Weekly World News has Bat Boy!